Rise in number of domestic employees in Kuwait despite Filipino workers ban

  • 03/11/2023

The labor statistics indicate a thirty percent rise in Kuwait's domestic workforce over the previous year despite the ban imposed on the recruitment of employees from Philippines since last February. As of October of last year, there were 811,000 domestic workers in Kuwait, compared to 583,000 in 2021. About 28.7% of them were women. 


Over the last year, there was  30% increase in the number of Indian domestic workers arriving, which is about 361,000 workers as of last October.

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